Insurgent Strength Reported in Laguna Province
Caballos leads about 600 armed insurgents in Laguna with a subset of American Black fighters. An officer captured with papers dated Nov 18 claims Caballos has 1000 men nearby for Mauban attack plans. Telegraph lines cut and poles removed near Mauban. Samar island reporting some hope but no wholesale surrenders yet amid gunboat patrols. Cash and hemp seized totaling over 120,000 with hemp taxes noted. Smallpox spreads in southern islands. U S Philippine commission drafts compulsory vaccination act.
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Manilla
Chaffee
Caballos
Laguna
Tazon
Mauban
Laguna Province
Samar
Lukban
United States
United States Philippine Commission
Tragedy in Marlin Ends With Stabbing and Shooting
Joe Gibson a colored resident of western Marlin Texas killed his wife in a brutal night attack. He injured himself before officers found him bleeding. his daughter later shot him in the stomach. He is jailed as a former state convict. In Kansas City, Dr James P Jackson a leading hospital surgeon for railroads died at 47, having helped establish railroad hospital services in Missouri and for Memphis route.
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Marlin
Tex
Joe Gibson
Jibson
Kansas City
James P. Jackson
Jackson
Missouri Railroad
Washington
Wabash and
Missouri Pacific
Memphis
Frisco
Longshoreman Killed Loading Coal Aboard Montenegro
In Galveston on November 23, W. F. Johnson a 30 year old longshoreman died after a coal loading bucket struck him on the head aboard the British steamship Montenegro. He lived about fifteen minutes.
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Galveston
W. F. Johnson
Montenegro
Johnson
Pickup robbery robs Cochran of 300 dollars in Texas depot
In Palestine Texas on November 23 an elderly man named Cochran was robbed of 300 dollars in paper bills by an unknown pickpocket as he alighted from a Carthage bound train. He was caught in a crowd at the car door and the thief escaped with the money.
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Palestine
Tex
Cochran
Carthage
Prominent Chickasaw Lawyer Arrested Over Tribal Tax
Guthrie Oklahoma November 23. Dorset Carter of Purcell a leading attorney in the Chickasaw nation was arrested by order of the Indian agent for refusing to pay the tribal tax. Carter sued out a writ of habeas corpus and paid $500 to appear next Wednesday. He plans to use the case as a test.
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Guthrie
O. T
Dorset Carter
Purcell
Carter
Consumptive Immigrant Case Tests Immigration Law
New York November 23. Thomas Boden an Irish steerage passenger with tuberculosis challenges US practice of excluding consumptives from landing. His lawyers seek habeas corpus after Ellis Island rejected him though his family and finances were sufficient. The case tests the constitutionality of the rule barring those with loathsome disease from entry.
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New York
Thomas Boden
Treasury
Thomas P. Boden
Ireland
Cunard Line
Lucania
Francis Tracy Tobin
Philadelphia
Congress
Boden
Russian labor inferior to American skilled work, says banker
Archer Brown of Rogers, Brown and Co says Russia cannot yet attract American capital for iron and coke ventures. He cautions that Russian labor, management, and ore quality lag behind the United States, and that development would take a century to reach American standards. He cites unchanged poor ore and weak oversight as barriers.
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New York
Archer Brown
Rogers, Brown & Co
Russia
Brown
United States
China
Great Sugar Trust in Germany Discovered
British sugar magnates report the existence of a German trust called Kartell that has controlled prices for about a year. They say its influence explains the low sugar prices and that its abolition will be a key goal at the Brussels conference as nations seek to curb the cartel’s impact.
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London
Germany
Brussels
Novel Cause for De St. Louis Proceedings
A terse legal notice describes a petition alleging actions by a leading tenor era company against a smoke inspector and Louis. It claims conduct while walking in the street and references unsettled proceedings. The fragment notes a de Saint Louis context dating from November.
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St. Louis
Tenor Era Company
Louis
Panama Quiet and Trains Running Report from Iowa Captain
Navy officials received a telegram from Captain Perry commanding the battleship Iowa reporting that Panama is quiet and satisfactory to all, with trains running. The note mentions enveloping smoke and throat irritation affecting an opera singer, but the core dispatch confirms smooth operations in Panama.
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Washington
Navy Department
Perry
Iowa
Panama
Death of Senor Germazo reported in Madrid
News in brief notes the death of Senor Germazo, a prominent Spaniard, in Madrid. Also: New York’s ticket scalping ban declared unconstitutional. John Morgan, a Leavenworth federal convict, escapes. Miles P. Miller acquitted in Austin, Texas, of murder of Dick Robinson.
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Senor Germazo
Madrid
New York
John Morgan
Leavenworth, Kas
Miles P. Miller
Austin, Tex
Dick Robinson
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